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Friday, November 16, 2012

Can I Get A Whoop Whoop? A Giveaway and a Special Whoop!!

Hi, all!!Well, the day is finally here - the day I write my 500th post!! And as promised, there will be a giveaway - - - but more about that after I share my whoop whoop moment for the week....

I am such a proud "quilt-mama"! This is my friend, Kathy, with the quilt she designed and made, from start to finish, for her father-in-law. When I met Kathy nearly three years ago, she told me that she would love to come sew with us, but that she had been told by a professional (!), that she was totally unable to sew. I am happy to say that we have proven that so-called professional totally wrong! This is probably Kathy's sixth or seventh quilt, and it is amazing! Take a look at her quilting...

....words even!! She did an amazing job with this. Chose the fabrics and colors, designed the layout, did her own quilting and binding. Awesome work, Kathy!! One last shot...

My favorite block on the quilt. Kathy's father has Parkinson's disease, and he will be undergoing surgery next week. I can't think of a better verse for him to keep in his heart!And another big whoop whoop this week for the quilt ministry - we gave away our 400th quilt last night! The quilt ministry and this blog are just about the same age - not quite three years old. And both have added so much to my life - and that's worth a whoop whoop too!!

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And now - it's time for - - - the giveaway!!

I caught a great sale recently, and thought about this moment...

...and picked up one of these just for one of you!!

It's an OttLite High Definition Creative Series Task Lamp in Going Green! I absolutely love mine - it gives me

just the right amount of light to do handwork!

So what do you have to do to get in the running?

Just leave me a comment! Let me know if you're going to join in the Black Friday madness, or if you're just going to sit at home and enjoy the peace and quiet...

I'll draw a winner and announce it next Friday, just to give someone else something to whoop whoop about!!

104 comments:

I worked retail for 12 years and could never understand the reasoning behind getting in line at 6 pm on Thanksgiving just to get a tv or computer when you can get one online for the same price. So.....I'll be enjoying my quilting time and eating leftovers on Friday while the madness happens.

I plan to stay right here where it is warm and no one is trying to beat me to the good deals that aren't really that good since they had to give up family time to get in line and then they are super tired and grumpy because of it! (Can you tell I used to work retail?)

I had to google Black Friday - so obviously I had no idea what it was - and well I won't do anything special, as it's not a special day here. [And as an afterthought - please don't throw me in the drawing bowl, international shipping can cause heart attacks, I just thought it a bit unfriendly to join the party and not leave a comment at all]

Never go to black Friday sales though I have a few friends that get some great deals. We give the grandkids money for their educational account (one day they will really appreciate it) and have given the kids beef for their freezer. No need to go I can pick up the few other gifts or do the homemade thing.

Congratulations on the loving work done by your ministry and thanks for the inspiration from your blog. I have so enjoyed seeing the good works coming from your ministry. I have a long history of making quilts for a children's charity project and I smile whenever I go to that corner of my studio. Happy happy colors for the precious children of our world. Keep on doing this great work. Stoney

Congrats on your many posts and charity quilts -- so impressive! I used to go out on Black Friday when it started at 6 am but when it moved to 4 am and even Thanksgiving evening it just seemed ridiculous to me, so I quit. There are many great online bargains and that's so much easier!

Oh I do hope I can show it very soon. I am putting the binding on my hexagon quilt that I hand pieced and hand quilted. I have been working on it for 25 months!! I'm so very excited.. SO EXCITED! My goal is to finish it REALLY SOON.. plugging away each day.. :) Big smile.

We don't have Thanksgiving or Black Friday here in teh UK so I willbe sewing as usual. I'm donating a Pretty Pleats tote bag to a raffle for a charity the school I work at is supporting so I will be busy making that!

Congratulations on reaching such impressive milestones! I am planning to sit out the Black Friday craziness, but certainly would pick up a deal or two online :-) Thanks for the wonderful giveaway chance!

I love your blog! Milestones are made to be shared! Thank you for sharing! (on both accounts: the milestones and the lamp! ;)I am planning on sitting out on black friday! I sewing to do!Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Whoop Whoop! Congratulations!! My daughter and I used to make it out at dark thirty to hit some of the Black Friday sales. It was fun to do this together. We might just go to share the time together :-)

Kathy's quilt is beautiful. I love the words she quilted on there. I definitely aspire to be able to do that someday! I will add her father to my prayers. Congrats to the quilt ministry... 400 is a LOT of quilts!!

I avoid black Friday (and really any shopping after Thanksgiving). My daughters are off from school the day before Thanksgiving and I try to get all my shopping done that day. I would prefer to pay a few dollars more than brave the crowds!

Whoop, Whoop!! For sure - that is an awesome quilt. (Where do people get off telling someone else they can't do something??) She did a fabulous job with this!

No way on this planet will I be anywhere near a store on Black Friday. I despise the entire thing. ;D My sister, on the other hand, loves it and will be frenetically taking advantage of the commercial hooplah!

congrats to your friend for proving that 'professional' wrong! I won't be black friday shopping - except maybe on my laptop. I plan on eating pie, playing with my boys, and cutting into a stack of Madrona Road FQs :)

Some years I do, some I do not. This year I will not be shopping, the recession is alive and well at my house lol. Maybe I will make it a sewing day and spend all day in my pj's and eat leftovers! xoxo melzie

Nice finish Kathy! That'll teach 'em to never say 'never'!! As for Black Friday, I've done that twice and it was for fabric. Not this year though...even the crowd at Joann's is a little too rowdy for me!

Isn't that always the way... somebody says we can't - then we do. Egg on her face. Your friend made a beauty, and it's inspirational, too. I hope her FIL does well in surgery.As far as BF... I never go in for crowds, and the traffic here in the Sacramento area, ICK. I'll stay home til the madness subsides and sew some.Hugs

Isn't that always the way... somebody says we can't - then we do. Egg on her face. Your friend made a beauty, and it's inspirational, too. I hope her FIL does well in surgery.As far as BF... I never go in for crowds, and the traffic here in the Sacramento area, ICK. I'll stay home til the madness subsides and sew some.Hugs

Isn't that always the way... somebody says we can't - then we do. Egg on her face. Your friend made a beauty, and it's inspirational, too. I hope her FIL does well in surgery.As far as BF... I never go in for crowds, and the traffic here in the Sacramento area, ICK. I'll stay home til the madness subsides and sew some.Hugs

Green is one of my favorite colors and I think that lamp would be perfect for providing light for my hand crank sewing machines! Yes, I do participate n Black Friday, but I always have a plan. I look at the ads, and pull the ones of the items I want and write the store on them. This way, I get only what I am looking for and am in and out, and I don't show up until the store has been opened for an hour. I only go to 1-3 stores. missysaprons@gmail.com

There are so many incredibly generous quilters, and most of them are so very encouraging. I'm sorry your friend ran across one of the other kind, but glad you have shown her that she really CAN do it! And what a beautiful job she's done. Gorgeous quilt!

Congratulations on your milestones. I know that you have blessed so many lives. May you have many more of those wonderful milestones!

Congrats Kathy on that quilt! Great quilt! My first professional quilt class was with a quilter who has her own fabric line and several quilting books out. She showed us lots of her quilts before she started teaching the class. She kept saying that she didn't do mitered corners (couldn't do them). Well, I was a new quilter (only a few quilts at that point) and I'd mitered 16 corners by that point, self taught. Congrats on 3 years and 500 posts! Whoop! Whoop! Love that green light! Thanks.

Hi!!! Yaa!!! Kathy!!! I used to enjoy the black friday shopping when my kids were little!!! I have grand children now but not wanting to get out in the crowds as much anymore!!!! I will wait till the fuss is over to do my shopping!!! Thanks for the fun!!!

Unfortunately, I OWN a retail quilt shop, so I will be working Black Friday. Never messed with it before I opened my store. And we don't do insanity specials so we don't really have big crowds. But we do serve cider and cookies and give our loyal customers little gifts - the giving is really what it should be about!

Congrats on your 500th post! And, Kathy gets a big whoop for that lovely quilt. I avoid all shopping on Black Friday...as well as Saturday & Sunday. WOW, what a super giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win.

Kathy did a wonderful job. Yea. 500 posts, awesome. I will be traveling toward VA and kids/grands. I don't usually go out on Black Friday; I don't like crowds and reading the ads, I don't see anything. Our stores have been have sales for a couple weeks. Working on quilt for grand and finished the blocks today.

WOW! So much to Whoop about! Congrats on your 500th post :) Your friends quilt is just beautiful! She must remember, there are no quilt police! :) Praying her father's surgery goes well. He's lucky to have such a wonderful daughter; I'm sure the quilt will be very comforting :) I will NOT be going out for Black Friday shopping. Can't afford it :( and I really don't like the crowds or how ugly people can be when its supposed to be a happy holiday. Thanks for a terrific giveaway! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours :)

I absolutely will not be participating in Black Friday. I hate being described as a "consumer"--when you think about it, it has a really ugly connotation. I will, however, take part in Small Business Saturday by shopping at our local quilt shop, Momma Made It in Longview, Washington.

Congrats on your 500th post. Also, Kathy did an amazing job. Sometimes professionals are just too full of themselves. I have never really shopped on Black Friday unless you count on-line shopping. I can not see getting up at the butt crack of dawn to be mobbed and insulted and assaulted just to get a few bucks off a product. I will stay home and wait until Christmas Eve and will still get some really amazing sales with a whole lot less insanity.

Congratulations. I so enjoy reading this blog each week and seeing all the comfort quilts that are created. I make it a point to not go anywhere on black friday - This year, I am happy to say that I have already made a significant dent in my shopping! Hopefully this will be a sewing day for me

I have never gone shopping on the Friday after thanksgiving and can't imagine ever choosing to. I will be kid free on Friday though so I think I might tackle a few Christmas sewing projects for them thy day.

Congrats on your 500th -- you don't look one post over 400 :-) Heehee. On Black Friday, two of my buddies are coming over to stitch and eat leftovers! Have a joyous Thanksgiving, and hug those beautiful little girls a lot.

Congratulations on reaching a major milestone. 500 posts and 400 quilts made with love is definitely something to celebrate.

Kathy's quilt is beautiful. I love that she quilted words as part of the design, I remind myself each day to "Be still," and wait for His word. Some days it's harder than others.

The thought of Black Friday makes me sad. A Walmart worker was trampled to death at a store near us last year. Such heartbreak caused by greed and the acquisition of material things. I haven't sewn in months, but I have cut out fabric to make 2 quilts for Hurricane Sandy victims. Hopefully, I can sew them on Friday.

Congratulations on all of the milestones and especially on giving kathy the incentive to prove herself. What a great quilt she made.I have too much quilting to do to shop on Black Friday. Seriously, I buy very few actual presents in stores any more. The kids in my life would much prefer cash and I'm the aunt who does not disappoint. Mj Wants an annual pass to Disney world and my sister is getting an airline ticket for a cool trip to Florida in January. All of which gives me a guilt free sewing day on Friday.

Congrats on your wonderful milestone! I will be sitting at home thinking of all of you fighting those crowds! I've actually got all my Christmas shopping already done, don't like the crowds. I do have another box ready to be sent for your ministry...just need to get it in the mail.

Congratulations on you 500th post! I will be at home for Black Friday. I am working on Thanksgiving and I will be at home on Friday. The only way I will venture out, is if my sewing machine is finished with it's tuneup.

Oh, Sarah, no amount of money could make me venture out on Black Friday . . . I used to work at Macy's, and I had enough of the long lines of people (many with bad attitudes) and customers "stealing" other customers' goods. If I buy anything on that particular day, it will be from the comfort of my own home, via the internet. :)

Congrats on your 500th post! Keep going strong - I so enjoy reading about what you're working on each week. :)

Oh, Sarah, no amount of money could make me venture out on Black Friday . . . I used to work at Macy's, and I had enough of the long lines of people (many with bad attitudes) and customers "stealing" other customers' goods. If I buy anything on that particular day, it will be from the comfort of my own home, via the internet. :)

Congrats on your 500th post! Keep going strong - I so enjoy reading about what you're working on each week. :)

You know, I won't do the Black Friday thing. I never did it until three years ago, when a neighbor suggested it. But, been there done that. I will spend the day setting up our Christmas tree and decorating the house. Maybe baking some bread, too!

I don't really do Black Friday. Will probably have to go to our local WalMart for something, but our store is fairly small and not as busy as the ones in the larger cities. Beautiful quilt of Kathy's. Congrats on the 500 posts and the 400 quilts.

Congrats on your 500th post!! And for the lovely quilts you have created also. I do NOT get involved with the craziness of Black Friday. There is nothing I need or want that badly to fight those crowds. I am more content to just be at home for the long weekend and "chill" with the family.

I love Kathy's quilt and know that it will be a comfort to her father. I will probably skip the Black Friday stuff as usual. But sometimes I go into our little town and do a little shopping there - it's not so crowded. I'm woo-hooing over the last block in my BOM quilt, even if I am behind one month.

Last night, on-line, Kohl s started its black Friday madness. I took advantage of some sale items for my grandchildren-with an added 15% off my total order & free shipping.We went to friend's home for Thanksgiving dinner.I regained the sane by concentrating on being thankful. Thanks for this give away!

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